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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe the size of the "white-washed" house Salvatore and Assunta buy?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Gigantic.
(c) Miniscule.
(d) Microscopic.

2. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?
(a) Husky.
(b) Thin.
(c) Frail.
(d) Flabby.

3. What would Salvatore do when his rheumatism made it impossible for him to work?
(a) Drink till dawn.
(b) Sob in the dark.
(c) Rest on the beach.
(d) Lay in his bed.

4. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?
(a) Like an old man.
(b) Like the devil.
(c) Like an angel.
(d) Like a child.

5. What did Salvatore tell his mother after he took a good look at Assunta?
(a) He would marry her if she fixed herself up a bit.
(b) He would marry her.
(c) He would rather marry his own brother.
(d) He would rather die than marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?

2. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

3. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

4. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?

5. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

2. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

3. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

4. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

5. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

6. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

7. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

8. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

9. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

10. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

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